(a.) Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.
(n.) A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Already known internationally for its food and its glittering annual film festival, the city will feature choral groups in the open air and an art project, Waves of Energy, bringing to life a surge of ideas suggested by the public, as well as performances and exhibitions inside sleek venues such as Basque music’s new home, Musikene, the San Telmo museum or the cube-shaped Kursaal on the edge of the sea.
(2) In a choral singing mode, subjects usually adjusted their voice levels to the levels they heard from the other singers, whereas in a solo singing mode the level sung depended much less on the level of an accompaniment.
(3) According to the composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle, whose work Chorales for Orchestra was premiered by Downes, "What stood out was his amazing attention to detail.
(5) Midazolam is a relatively safe and effective sedative for accurate lower esophageal sphincter pressure measurement and esophageal manometry when a mild sedative such as choral hydrate does not work.
(6) Subjects generally sang with more power in the singer's formant region in the solo mode and with more power in the fundamental region in the choral mode.
(7) If I was white and blonde and said I went to church all the time, you'd be talking about the 'choral aspect'.
(8) It’s also built around the pillaged scores of 15th-century sacred choral music – hence the Guide inviting him back to church for the first time since he was 14.
(9) Deputy Rector of the University of Glasgow and a vicar choral of Glasgow Cathedral, the physician Mark Jameson made many annotations in his copy of the 1549 edition of Fuchs' herbal.
(10) It has 200 members, the school runs pupil drama and choral groups on a co-operative basis, and even has children work together "co-operatively" in small groups in lessons.
(11) Unlike her choir partner, 88-year-old Arnold-Forster comes from a family of singers and was a member of her local choral society when she was younger.
(12) Abbado has talked of the choral finale of the Second Symphony - the "Resurrection", Mahler's coruscating vision of spiritual rebirth - as a metaphor for his own musical experience.
(13) Additional research is recommended since the present design with a comparison group of 49 non-choral members did not allow separation of effects of selection from those of activity.
(14) Lammy, who attended Downhills before winning a choral scholarship to King's, the cathedral school in Peterborough, said: "I am devastated that Michael Gove plans to erase over 100 years of history at Downhills primary school.
(15) But even conducting the first upbeat, the breath into the first bar, bringing in that chorale in the four horns, it feels like I'm putting on a glove that's kept me warm in previous winters – it's that feeling of familiarity and richness."
(16) Within the lovers' final confrontation, Bizet writes a series of choral passages for the people of Seville that create a psychological bullring around Carmen and Don José, goading our lovers to their bloody end.
(17) He began work on Love Streams by illegally downloading a bunch of choral works by Josquin des Prez, a 15th- and 16th-century Franco-Flemish composer who left little of himself to history beyond graffitiing his name in the Sistine Chapel.
(18) For all the clamour of the game’s final moments, the noise inside the Arena Corinthians before kick-off was mild after the choral din of Argentina’s previous matches, a consequence perhaps of the sheer mountainous scale of this huge open-sided stadium.
(19) The Norwegian composer Cecilie Ore describes her choral commission for the BBC Singers as "an homage to the brave members of Pussy Riot".
(20) For services to Choral Music in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
Chordal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a chord.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the PTFE suture did exhibit some viscoelastic characteristics (hysteresis and creep) that begin to approach the chordal behavior.
(2) Serial studies demonstrated eventual disruption of the chordal attachments of the anterior tricuspid leaflet resulting in frank leaflet flail.
(3) In two patients with a clinical picture of acute mitral insufficiency, the presence of chordal rupture secondary to myxomatous degeneration of the mitral valve was disclosed during surgery.
(4) In the valves with subvalvar involvement splitting started at the apex of spaces between the fused chordal columns and proceeded upward.
(5) Complications are disturbances of rhythm, bacterial endocarditis and in case of a chordal rupture a mitral regurgitation.
(6) In two cases, if appeared to arise in the region between the aortic and mitral rings; in one instance, it was located in the mid left ventricle, in the mitral chordal region.
(7) The native valve was completely excised and all chordal attachments were severed at the head of each papillary muscle.
(8) We examined ventricular contractile function and ejection performance and isolated myocyte function after correction of experimental mitral regurgitation (chordal rupture) with mitral valve replacement that involved chordal preservation.
(9) Comparing these patients with those with ruptured mitral chordae in association with rheumatic heart disease and patients with spontaneous chordal rupture, differences were evident.
(10) During MVR with complete chordal preservation, snares were placed around the anterior and posterior papillary muscles.
(11) The authors provide the results of the use of two-dimensional echocardiography for diagnosing chordal ruptures of the mitral valve depending on the etiological factor of chordal pathology (mesenchymal abnormalities, rheumatic fever, infective endocarditis, coronary heart disease).
(12) Fluttering chorda (FC) of the mitral valve (MV) manifesting by hyperkinesia of usually fixed MV chorda, its early systolic dislocation into the left ventricular outflow tract was registered in 34.5% of ICM patients, 11.2% of them had echocardiographic evidence of the chordal shift in the systole into the above tract.
(13) It appears that Carpentier's sliding commissuroplasty is a superior new reconstructive technique for mitral regurgitation due to commissural chordal rupture.
(14) Retrospective examination of the cineangiogram revealed the presence of balloon indentation at the chordal level during inflation, which disappeared at full inflation.
(15) The chordal rupture was due to idiopathic degenerative disease in 14 patients, infective endocarditis in three and trauma in one.
(16) The technique used was a combination of posterior semicircular annuloplasty, mitral commissurotomy and chordal shortening.
(17) Mitral chordal rupture was nearly as frequent in the 64 patients with clearly dilated anular circumferences as in the 19 patients with normal or insignificantly dilated anular circumferences (less than or equal to 11 cm).
(18) The valve was repaired by pericardial chordal replacements and ring annuloplasty.
(19) In particular, anterior and inward displacement of the papillary muscles can be predicted to alter the effectiveness of chordal support so that the central leaflet portions become relatively slack and are more readily displaced anteriorly.
(20) Valve abnormalities, consisting of chordal attachments to the infundibular septum or ventricular septal crest, straddling, overriding or some combination of these, were identified in 25 of 39 patients (64%) in group I, no patients in groups II or IV and 6 of 30 patients (20%) in group III.